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The Sfew Science 
of 

C ^adiendocrinology 


in in relation to 



uvenation 


Based on the Radiation Technique of 
DR. EUGEN STEINACH 


of Vienna 



By 

HERMAN H. RUBIN, M. D. 

Director of the American Institute of Radiendocrinology 

Member of 

American Association for the Advancement of Science 
American Medical Association 
New York State Medical Association 
New York County Medical Association 
Associate in New York Hospitals 
Contributor to Scientific and Medical Literature. 




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C o n t e n t s 


Introduction 
Chapter I 

Chapter II 

Chapter III 
Chapter IV 
Chapter V 
Chapter VI 

Chapter VII 
Chapter VIII 


Chapter IX 
Chapter X 
Chapter XI 
Chapter XII 


The Steinach Rejuvenation Treatment 
and its Importance to the World. 

The Chemical Control of the Body La¬ 
boratory. 

The Endocrines 

Duplicating the Endocrine Chemistry 

The Interrelatioship of the Endocrines 

The Paramount Importance of the Go¬ 
nads 

Attempting Rejuvenation by Operation 

From the Realm of Chemistry, Surgery 
and Physiology into the Field of Phy¬ 
sics 

The New Steinach Radiation Treatment 

Methods of Ionization 

The Radiendocrinator 

Physiological Results of Radiendocrino- 
logical Treatment 
















Foreword 


The Steinach radiation treatment for rejuvenation is 
new to the American public. It is based on scientific de¬ 
velopments that are themselves of recent origin. This 
book should be of timely interest and the greatest value 
since it explains, step by step, the various findings in the 
fields of physiology, chemistry and physics, forming the 
chain of experiment and discovery which has led up to 
scientific rejuvenation. 

This book gives a summary of the work done in de¬ 
veloping the knowledge of the chemical functioning of 
the body, as well as a resume of the activities of the en¬ 
docrine glands. It outlines the functions and inter-rela¬ 
tionship of the endocrines, including the sex glands. It 
sketches briefly the early attempts to influence body 
chemistry, and to secure rejuvenating influences by gland 
transplantations and gland operations. It considers those 
new findings with reference to the electronic nature of 
the body, which paved the way for Dr. Steinach’s radia¬ 
tion-rejuvenation treatment, and laid the foundation for 
the newer science of Radiendocrinology. In conclusion, 
it describes the Radiendocrinator and its use, together 
with the physiological results obtained therefrom. 

The marvellous possibilities of this treatment in its 
many adaptations for arresting what physicians term 
“retrograde tissue metamorphosis”—or physical decay or 
degeneration of the body cells and vital structures—are 
clearly detailed. 

The result of arresting degenerative process—as ex¬ 
pressed in a rounding out of shrunken features and flabby 
busts, or in' the removal of disfiguring and life-shorten- 

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ing accumulations of fat, in the enhanced feeling of 
vigor and increased capacity for work or play, and in the 
development of undeveloped or adolescent types—is 
outlined in a popular way, in order to make this book 
of the greatest usefulness. 

The text was written by Dr. Rubin, America’s fore¬ 
most Radiendocrinologist, after exhaustive research and 
experiment. It sets forth in a modest way Dr. Rubin’s 
own surprising accomplishments over a wide range of 
clinical experience. This is the work that has already 
created fame for Dr. Rubin on both sides of the Atlantic. 

A careful reading of these pages will enable anyone to 
understand the principles involved in this great treat¬ 
ment, and may influence him or her to write freely to the 
American Institute of Radlendocrinology, the American 
Endocrine Laboratories, or the publishers of this book 
for further information on these vital subjects. 

The Publishers. 


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Introduction 


From time immemorial men have dreamed of rejuve¬ 
nation and of the possibility of overcoming the devasta¬ 
ting ravages of old age. It is a problem that has stolen, 
like the shadow of a bat’s wing, into the consciousness 
of every man and woman that has walked these “banks 
and shoals of Time”. 

It is a grim spectre, peering uncannily out of every 
mirror that reflects the graying hair, the deepening 
wrinkle, the dimming flash of eye. It echoes the muffled 
drum beat of the aging heart, tottering toward the sable 
curtains of the Night of Life. 

It is a goal towards which countless generations of 
physicians have bent desperate steps—eager to achieve 
before the creeping paralysis of senescence covered them 
with its murky cloak. 

It is the prize for which the Dr. Faustuses of all the 
ages were ready to trade their immortal souls. The quest 
of Ponce de Leon for the Fountain of Youth was but a 
single expression of the great desire that has been pent 
up in the breasts of millions during the centuries. It 
was the cry of that Catherine who said, “All my riches 
for another hour of life”. Caesars have offered their em¬ 
pires to have the fires of youth rekindled. Is it any won¬ 
der that scientists have labored for ages to solve the 
greatest of all problems—the maintenance of virile 
power and the stamina of youth! 

So much of disappointment and discouragement has 
followed the quest that scientists had practically de¬ 
spaired of ever solving the secret of age, and of holding 
in check the Moving Finger that writes their death sen¬ 
tence at an age when, according to the law of biological 
growth, they should be in their prime. 

Metchnikoff thought he had solved the problem, only 

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to be swept away by the very toxins whose development 
he had hoped to prevent. 

And so with scores, if not hundreds of devoted re¬ 
search workers in laboratories throughout the worlds 
laboring week after weary week, in the search for that 
elusive substance or agent that would quicken the pulse 
of life and reanimate the sluggish body cells, worn with 
the struggle against creeping age. 

Almost without hope—and then, like a ray of light in 
the darkness of doubt, comes a message—a message 
coldly scientific and carefully and scrupulously phrased. 

Interpreted into the language of the multitude, it means 
that Eugen Steinach, a comparatively unknown profes¬ 
sor of biology in Vienna, has solved the problem of the 
centuries, and has brought back, first to aging animals* 
and then to aging men and women, the flower and bloom 
of vigorous youth. 

To this obscure Viennese professor belongs the honor 
of having been the first to succeed in producing the 
means of scientifically rejuvenating the human body, 
without entailing the perils of a dubious operation. 

The world is ringing with the praises of this remark¬ 
able scientist. His great clinic in Vienna is the Mecca 
of thousands seeking new life and vigor, and the beauty 
of lovely womanhood. Some idea of the tremendous in¬ 
terest evoked in the famous Steinach rejuvenation treat¬ 
ment lies in the fact that the book, “Black Oxen”, by 
Gertrude Atherton—built around his work—has already 
gone into several editions, and has been eagerly read by 
hundreds of thousands of people. 

The demand for this rejuvenation treatment has been 
so wide-spread that, in order to bring within the reach 
of everyone the opportunity of securing it, the Steinach 
technique, after painstaking research and effort, has 
been successfuly adapted for individual use. 

The new Steinach Rejuvenation Treatment by Radia¬ 
tion—a process by which certain glands of the body, 
known as the Endocrines, are radiated—is now obtain- 

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able at Dr. Steinach’s Vienna clinic only at great expense 
—entailing a foreign journey and a foreign residence 
for many weeks, if not months. Many sick or elderly 
people, as well as others in need of this treatment, are 
not prepared for such inconveniences and travel difficul¬ 
ties. A Rejuvenation Treatment has therefore been 
been developed, an adaptation of the Steinach Technique, 
which does at home what is done at the Viennese clinic 
for thousands of the foremost people of Europe. Inas¬ 
much as the object of the Steinach treatment is to de¬ 
velop and conserve as well as to restore, this remarkable 
radiation treatment is being taken by people of all ages, 
for physical development, for rejuvenation and for many 
ailments of long standing. 

Owing to the simplicity and the adaptability of the 
newer ray sources to home treatment, this work has a 
usefulness far beyond expectation. In fact, it is now 
possible to extend the blessings of Dr. Steinach’s dis¬ 
coveries to those remotely removed from Vienna or 
Paris, the centers of the world’s rejuvenation activities, 
and give to men and women wherever they may live on 
the face of the earth these therapeutic advantages. 

From this radiation treatment of the endocrines a new 
science has arisen, known as Radiendocrinology. Physi¬ 
cians giving this treatment are known as Radiendocrinol• 
ogists. One of the principal ray-producing devices em¬ 
ployed by them in administering these treatments is 
called the Radiendocrinator. The practice of this new 
science is called Radiendocrine therapy. 

In order to set forth in simple terms a few of the 
phases involved in the newer science of Radiendocrinol¬ 
ogy and Radiendocrine therapy this book has been pre¬ 
pared. It is written so that all who read may understand. 
It is my hope that it may have a far-reaching effect upon 
the lives of those who would otherwise be denied the 
blessings of youthful activities and mental energies 
throughout greatly extended careers, and bring to them 
such enhancement of mental and physical powers and 

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womanly beauty as could not conceivably be secured in 
any other way. 

Above all, if you lack health or buoyant vitality, or if 
you are approaching the chasm of the infinite—read this 
short book. You are entitled to the word of the scientist. 
You have a right to know what the most recent discover¬ 
ies have to offer. You will certainly be glad to know 
what has hem accomplished and what logically may be 
repeated. 


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CHAPTER I 


The Steinach Rejuvenation Treatment 
and its Importance to the World 

Rejuvenation and the retarding of senility mean life, 
health, happiness, longevity. The physical blessing flow¬ 
ing from youthful impulse and exuberant spirits in 
mature life can be appreciated by anyone who will ob¬ 
serve the bubbling, buoyant activity of healthy young 
people. 

Life is a process of construction and decay. From the 
healthy soil of maternity comes the beautiful blossom of 
childhood. From this blossom developes the vigor of 
youth, the glory of adolescence, the power of maturity- 
decline, sterility, senility, death. 

THE SPAN OF NORMAL LIFE 

The span of normal life is 

Youth to the 13th year 
Adolescence to the 25th year 
Maturity to the 40th year 
Decline to the 60th year 
Senility Death 

After the 40th year, scientific rejuvenation, added to 
man’s waning powers of maturity, increases his span of 
glorious, active life by ten years or more. In many 
instances the results are even greater. Many cases are 
on record in Europe of men and women well past 60, even 
past 80, who have regained the full energies of middle 
life. Thousands have been regenerated by adding this 
renewing electron charge to those endocrines, which, 
through sluggish action, have slowed down all the pro¬ 
cesses of life in maturity. 


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Rejuvenation means more today than any other sub¬ 
ject that can concern a man or woman. For the 
wrinkled face, the drawn skin, the dull eye, the listless 
gait, the faulty memory, the aching body, the destructive 
effects of sterility—all spell imperfect endocrine action- 
subnormal rejuvenating power. 

These facts are now established by medical science, 
and used as a basis of diagnosis by foremost clinicians 
the world over. 

Scientific rejuvenation clears away these evidences 
of faulty body chemistry by energizing the glandular 
functions in a definite way, and with exactly the same 
physiological results as would the injection of new 
youth, if such a thing were possible. 

Rejuvenation, in short, means new life, new energy, 
new mental powers. Invigorating the endocrines, es¬ 
pecially the sex glands—the masters of the endocrines— 
is basic to the Steinach Treatment. The tremendous 
consequence attending these greatest of physiological 
discoveries is today dawning upon the thinking world. 

Special cablegrams from Europe to our daily press 
concerning the progress of this work are news factors 
of first page importance. Editorials are written, books 
are being published, physicians are studying with the 
keenest interest this new science. Even life insurance 
actuaries are taking note of scientifically increased 
longevity, in its effect on probability tables, upon which 
insurance rates are based. 

The scientific world stands upon a new threshold, look¬ 
ing upon that Promised Land made visible by the dis¬ 
covery of the functions of the endocrines and of this 
new-found means of stimulating their healthy action. 
Thousands of rejuvenated lives attest the realization of 
this vast dream. 


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CHAPTER II 


The Chemical Control of the Body Laboratory 

It has long been realized that the human body is in 
reality an exceedingly complex chemical laboratory. 
With the scientific developments in modern chemistry it 
has become evident that the chemical functions per¬ 
formed in this great laboratory are marvellously intricate 
and varied in their nature. 

The food we eat, plus the water and oxygen we con¬ 
sume, are the chemical agents utilized as raw materials 
by this laboratory. These are converted into flesh, blood, 
bone, nerve fibre, plasma or hormones, as needed. Com¬ 
plex chemical reactions take place constantly day and 
night. Therefore it is obvious that what we eat has a 
vital bearing upon what we are. 

The chemical functions of the body are performed 
not alone in the stomach, intestines and organs of the 
alimentary system, but in every fibre and capillary of 
the human body. The building of a new cell or the 
destruction of an old one is a chemical process called 
“metabolism”. This proceeds constantly from concep¬ 
tion until death. This process, if uninterrupted, would 
predicate the eternal life of the cell, were not the pro¬ 
cess subject to degeneration influences, until finally the 
curtain is drawn in the cataclasm called Death. 

When the Body Plant Does not Operate Smoothly 

Whenever the functions of any organ are interfered 
with, through injury or otherwise, the other organs are 
overtaxed to help supply a proper physical balance. This, 
naturally, means increased effort on the part of the 
reserve chemistry of the body, which in turn brings 
about a change in the chemistry of the body's fluids. 

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For ages we have sought to overcome this by the use 
of medicines or drugs. 

The Use of Medicines 

Medical men have attempted to segregate the various 
chemical processes of the body and to find accelerators 
or retardents for the individual chemical processes per¬ 
formed by the major organs. Partly scientifically, but 
largely empirically, many medicinal agents (chemical 
agents) have been worked out which more or less per¬ 
fectly serve these purposes when applied to one or an¬ 
other of the many chemical processes involved. 

Up until the days of modern medicine, all manner of 
queer concoctions were prescribed, on the supposition 
that they would, by some miraculous but certainly un¬ 
known method, perform the hoped-for cure. Modern 
medicine has been built upon the supposed specific action 
of the particular ingredient in the acceleration or retarda¬ 
tion of a particular chemical process to influence the 
faulty chemical action, and thus restore the body to 
normal. 

A large amount of useful information has come from 
this widely popular method of treating disease, yet even 
to-day, medical results are so much a matter of specula¬ 
tion that a great physician recently remarked “I can 
practice medicine with oil, quinine and iodine”. 

Unfortunately, most medical effort has been devoted 
to an attempt to correct a faulty chemical process that 
was in itself caused by some more distant and less un¬ 
derstood cause. The great strides made in modern medi¬ 
cal science have been in the direction of getting behind 
these major causes by a fuller realization of the basic 
elements of which life and health are the expression. 

Even today, drugs used to correct the chemistry of 
individual processes in the body occupy a large place in 
the practice of medicine, although it is now almost uni¬ 
versally agreed that whatever is put into the system, 
with the exception of wholesome food, regardless of its 

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beneficial effects upon a given process, taxes other body- 
activities out of proportion to the good it renders, and 
almost invariably adds a destructive burden to the work 
of the excretory organs. 

Discovery of the Endocrines as Controlling 
Chemical Processes 

While physiology owes a great and important debt to 
modern chemistry in unfathoming some of the major 
mysteries of our general organic functions, it was the 
physiologist himself who, with an ever-inquiring mind 
and a deep devotion to a high purpose, persistently 
asked the question “What governs these chemical pro¬ 
cesses—where is the guiding hand?” It was in this 
search, which has extended over 20 years and occupied 
the attention of the foremost physiological and biological 
scientist in the world, that the endocrines and their func¬ 
tions have been discovered. 

First, it was observed that when certain heretofore 
neglected little capsules or glands were removed from 
the body marked chemical and structural changes took 
place. For example, removal of one of these glands, 
called the Thyroi d, caused retarded growth, loss of ap¬ 
petite, various metabolic disorders, emaciation, myxe¬ 
dema, death. Naturally, science came to the conclusion 
that this gland furnished some substance to the blood 
that exercised an action on the chemistry of the body. 

These tiny bits of our physical make-up first impressed 
themselves upon scientific men because of the unbeliev¬ 
ably weird and destructive effects upon the human sys¬ 
tem noted when they have been extirpated, atrophied 
or otherwise injured. Many an unfortunate patient 
has lost health, happiness or life through lack of knowl¬ 
edge which to-day would be considered criminal. Now 
we know that these tiny masters of our destiny—the very 
elements of which our personality is constructed, the 
source of all our physical and mental well-being —must 
be protected, conserved, and, if possible, stimulated in 

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middle or later life by the invigorating means now 
available to science. Dr. Berman says ‘‘Every bit of 
evidence points towards the glands of internal secretion 
(endocrines) as the holders of the secrets of our inmost 
being. They are the well-springs of life, the dynamo of 
the organism. In trailing their scent we appear upon 
the track not only of the chemistry of our bodies, but of 
the chemistry of our very souls. 

“The most precious bit of knowledge we possess to-day 
about man is that he is a creature of his glands of inter¬ 
nal secretion. That is, Man as a distinctive organism 
is the product of a number of cell factories which con¬ 
trol the parts of his make-up. These chemical factories 
consist of cells which manufacture special substances, 
which set upon the other cells of the body and so start 
and determine the countless processes we call life. Life, 
body and soul emerge from the activities of the magic 
ooze of their silent chemistry”. 

To-day we know that the chemical control of the body 
is the physiological purpose of the glands of internal 
secretion —the ductless glands—or Endocrines. 

We now see that Nature supplies her own means of 
compensation when any of the chemical functions goes 
wrong in the amazingly complex laboratory we call our 
body. 


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CHAPTER III 


The Endocrines 

Classification 

The Endocrine glands (or as they are sometimes 
called, the ductless glands, or glands of internal secre¬ 
tion) are the Thyroid, Parathyroid, Adrenal, Pituitary, 
Pancreas and the interstitial or sex glands, called the 
Gonads. There are also the Thymus and the Pineal— 
active primarily in childhood or adolescence, not usually 
active after puberty. The collective name for these 
glands is “Endocrines" and it is therefore used through¬ 
out this work. 

Distinction Between the Endocrine 

AND OTHER GLANDS 

The body contains many glands which may be divided 
into (a) the glands of external secretion, such as Sali¬ 
vary, Sweat and similar glands, and (b) the glands of in¬ 
ternal secretion—the Endocrines. These latter glands 
possess no ducts—hence were first called ductless glands. 
These glands form within their cells specific chemical 
substances which pass directly or indirectly into the blood 
stream, thus forming the active material of their secretion 
—known as hormones. This secretion remains within the 
body, circulating with the blood, whereas that of external 
secretion glands (like the salivary) passes by way of 
ducts to the exterior of the body and is excreted. The 
hormones from the endocrines are conveyed by the blood 
to the body organs where they control the chemical pro¬ 
cesses. 

Some of the ductless glands serve a double purpose, in 
that they also excrete externally. These are the Pancreas, 
Testes and Ovaries. However, we are concerned only 

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with the internal secretions—the hormones sent into the 
blood stream to regulate the body chemistry. 

The chemical hormones of the sex glands are produced 
by the interstitial Cells of Leydig in the testes and cells of 
the Graffian Follicles and the Lutein Cells in the ovaries. 
These hormones must not be confused with the external 
secretion of the sex glands, namely the spermatozoa and 
the ova. 


Influence of the Endocrines on the 
Human Race 

Just as evolution opened a new world of truth to the 
human mind, so the science of Endocrinology opened new 
prospects of transcendent importance to the human race 
in respect to the conservation of functioning power, ro¬ 
bust health and long life. 

All human architecture, size, shapeliness, symmetry, 
beauty, hair, teeth, all human character—from the noble, 
altruistic and virtuous, to the lowest, basest and most 
bcastial—may now be analyzed and traced directly to 
the endocrines. All the currents and countercurrents that 
make up life in all its mysteries are now classified, 
grouped and proportioned with respect to the microsco¬ 
pic stream by these mighty dictators of our destiny. 
Everyone who has even a general understanding of these 
impressive metabolic processes realizes the tremendous 
importance of any means whereby these glands may be 
made to perform their necessary functions in maintaining 
normal, happy life. 

An individual is what he is, solely because of his body 
chemistry, not in spite of it. Let one of the several 
master glands atrophy and behold the phenomenon wit¬ 
nesses by every medical practitioner—complete change in 
appearance, in capacity, in potentiality. Obesity, emacia¬ 
tion, assymetry of feature and form, disfigurements, such 
as “feminine mustache”, cretinism, myxedema, senility, 
dotage, death—these and a thousand others, and all the 
intermediate manifestations commonly termed loss of 

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beauty or vitality, permanent adolescence, senility or old 
age, are the direct and inescapable dictates of the unde¬ 
veloped or deteriorated Endocrines. Physicians of the 
old school are as helpless as the wise men in the tub in 
dealing with this newer science. Alert, scholarly doctors, 
who themselves have good endocrines, are able to keep 
abreast of this rapidly marching procession. More has 
been learned about human physiology in the past ten 
years than in all the previous time that man has inhabited 
the earth. Today the mysteries of individual variation 
are as clearly understood and catalogued as the difference 
between typewriters or automobiles. The invisible, yet 
dominant control of the endocrines, is as clearly estab¬ 
lished as are the laws of hydraulics or electricity. 

Within the human system is a vast universe of activity, 
populated by billions of living cells and organisms, mov¬ 
ing, working, absorbing, excreting, reproducting. Their 
types are legion, their functions are numberless. The 
purpose of their life and co-operation is the production of 
plasma, hormones, corpuscles, ova, sperma. The product 
of their labor is chemical combination, combustion, cata¬ 
lysis, electrolysis. 

This vast universe is divided into four principal em¬ 
pires of control, the thyroid , the pituitary, the adrenal 
and the gonad. 

The Functions of the Various Endocrine Glands 

The following brief outline of the Endocrine Glands, 
and their functions, as well as their tremendous import¬ 
ance upon personality, is included in this booklet for the 
benefit of those who are curious enough to want to know 
how and why the Steinach Technique and Radiendocrino- 
logy can have such an important bearing upon human 
physiology. 

The Thyroid Function 

The thyroid is the controller of the metabolism of ener¬ 
gy in the human body. It is located in the neck, where 
it is so easily discernable in the swollen form known as 

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goitre. The thryroid is one of the glands indispensible 
to life. Mild but chronic ailments are caused by slug¬ 
gish functioning, such as the slow, stupid obesity of 
many people after middle life. When decidedly abnormal 
it may cause with its atrophy or destruction the most re¬ 
pulsive myxedema or even death. The thyroid is a direct 
index of man’s usable energy, since it furnishes the “go 
ahead” that characterizes all healthy, happy life. Al¬ 
though not the producer, it is the accelerator, lubricator 
and transformer of our energies. The thyroid is the con¬ 
troller of the speed of living. 

The thyroid and the gonads (sex glands) are very 
closely and sympathetically related. With decline or de¬ 
struction of the gonads, the thyroid withers or swells, the 
speed producer ceases to call upon the great chemical 
laboratories, such as the gestative system, for more and 
more fuel, for more and more steam with which to en¬ 
able the body to indulge in more work and more play. 
The fire of youth burns out, and like the eunuch or the 
eunichoid, the quick, animate, alert, become the slow, 
heavy and stupid. Thyroxin, one of science’s newest dis¬ 
coveries, may temporarily supply the thyroid impulse 
where needed, by doing part of the work of the thyroid 
gland. But for real living energy the thyroid must be 
made to perform its own function. The only definite 
means known to science by which this result may be ac¬ 
complished is through ionization, as in the Steinach 
Radiation Rejuvenation Treatment through the gonads, 
or as better known in this country through radiendocrina- 
tion. 

The Pituitary Function 

Tucked deep in the base of the skull, just back of the 
root of the nose, and protected by Nature with safe¬ 
guards, like wealth in a bank vault, is the pituitary gland. 
There is a posterior and an anterior portion of the gland, 
with somewhat similar functions, but of remotely dif¬ 
ferent origin, as proved by the human embryo and the 

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vertebrate family tree. Removal of the pituitary gland 
brings immediate death. 

From the anterior portion of the gland a secretion 
passes directly into the blood stream—from the posterior, 
a fluid called pituitrin joins the spinal fluid that bathes 
the nervous system. Pituitrin is a complex and most 
marvellous substance. Without it neither human nor ani¬ 
mal can function. With a sub-normal supply, the body 
heat falls off to the danger point, somnolence, loss of hair, 
dull mentality, fatty degeneration, and sometimes epilep¬ 
sy, inevitably result. Signs of early mental deterioration, 
unsteadiness of gait or cold-bloodedness are now traced 
directly to an insufficiency of this life-giving fluid. Alien¬ 
ists and psychopathologists center their attention here. 

The pituitary gland has a wide range of known duties 
to perform. Some of its blessings are good blood pres¬ 
sure, healthy sex tone, initiative, zest for study, work, 
change and travel, sustained interest in occupation and 
the endurance of youth. 

With a healthy pituitary balance the skeleton is strong 
and firm, and remains so in the aged, with bones that 
show no tendency toward brittleness, the nerves maintain 
a steady tension, and the sensory faculties of sight, sound 
and smell are enjoyed to the very end of ripe old age. 
Here lies the secret of the splendid mental powers of some 
elderly people. The many conspicuous examples of busi¬ 
ness men, military strategists, statesmen, artists and men 
of letters who have retained their brilliant faculties and 
capacities for achievement in undiminished lustre up to 
the very end of a long career, must be credited to a 
finely tuned pituitary—thoroughly balanced, however, by 
the thyroid, adrenals and gonads. 

The thyroid and the pituitary both control body gro vvth 
and body replacement. The thyroid bears more directly 
on the outer coverings of the body, the skin, the skin 
glands, the skin color of pigmentation, and the hair— 
hence the external appearance; while the pituitary gov¬ 
erns nutrition of the framework of the body, the teeth, 

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the skeleton and the cords, tendons and muscles by which 
the skeleton is operated. While the thyroid makes avail¬ 
able the supply of crude energy by speeding up cellular 
processes, the pituitary is responsible for the transforma¬ 
tion, expenditure and conversion of that energy into 
healthful, youthful vitality. Especially is this true of the 
brain and of the sexual system. 

The Adrenal Function 

Like the pituitary, each adrenal gland is double, both 
in structure and in function, although the differing parts 
so interlace their cellular masses that they were long con¬ 
fused as one gland. These precious possessions lie just 
beneath the small of the back, astride the kidneys, where 
they are supplied with an inordinately large blood stream. 
Their tremendous importance in the body economy ac¬ 
counts for their being so favored. 

In the human embryo the outer portions (cortex) are 
derived from the same cellular patch that forms the sex 
organs, the ovaries in the female and the testes in the 
male, a relationship which in later life is clearly expressed 
by their close functional and sympathetic relationship 
with the reproductive organs, and their indispensible sup¬ 
port of sex tone, extended maturity and long, virile life. 

As Berman says—“But not only are sexuality and the 
conduct of the secondary sex characters connected with 
the adventures of the adrenal cortex. The development 
of the master tissues of the body, the brain, the pride and 
darling of evolution, is in some subtle way correlated 
with it. The adrenal cortex contains more of the phos¬ 
phorus-containing substances of the general nature of 
those found in the central nervous system, than any other 
gland or non-nervous tissues of the body. During human 
intrauterine life the adrenal glands are large and con- 
spicT ^>us in the first half of the second month, being twice 
as large as the kidneys. Most of the relatively huge size, 
which happens in the human alone and not in other ani¬ 
mals, is due to enlargement of the cortex. Should this 

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preponderance of the cortex over the medullary (or in¬ 
side) portion not occur in the human, the brain fails to 
develop properly, or an entirely brainless monster is gen¬ 
erated. The human brain, therefore, owes its superiority 
over the animal brain to the adrenal cortex. The growth 
of the brain cells, their number and complexity is thus 
controlled by the adrenal cortex.” 

The color of the skin is also an adrenal cortex function. 
Clear, rosy color is an inescapable index of good func¬ 
tioning; dark, sallow color and deep lines are the result 
of imperfect adrenal hormone action. With the well- 
known tubercular adrenal gland the skin becomes very 
dark and is popularly known as Addison’s disease. 

But upon the interior of the gland (medulla), the 
world of physiological science has lavished the flower of 
its attention. Everything that can possibly be determined 
about its structure, its secretion, and its effect upon the 
human system has been explored. Today its mysterious 
fluid (adrenalin) has been reduced to the marvellously 
scientific formula of synthetic production—it may now 
be produced in the test-tube. 

The necessity and importance of the adrenal-medulla 
may best be realized by the result of its functioning. Add 
adrenalin to the blood and instantly a mighty transforma¬ 
tion takes place. There is a tremendous tensing of the 
nervous system, nerve cells become more sensitive to 
stimuli,the great reservoirs of blood, the liver and the 
spleen (reservoirs containing one-fourth of all the blood) 
pour forth billions of red corpuscles into the blood stream, 
the heart beats more strongly, the eye sees more clearly, 
the ear hears more distinctly, the breathing becomes 
rapid, the temperature rises, the hair becomes erect, the 
fatigued muscle regains its tone and strength, the brain 
becomes alert and clear—in fact, all physical and mental 
processes speed up to an astonishing extent. 

What causes this marvellous transformation in the soul 
of living man is now an open book. 

The adrenal is the gland of combat or flight. During 

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the long evolutionary rise to power of the human race 
the adrenals were man’s bulwark in the survival of the 
fittest. The supreme emergency power for fight or flight 
was and is furnished by this inconspicuous little organ 
long passed over by the physiologist as a mere fatty ex¬ 
crescence of the kidney. 

A thousand strange and wonderful effects upon the 
secondary sex characteristics, such as the pitch of the 
voice, hair on the face, other hair distribution, feminine 
masculinity and masculine effeminacy are directly 
traced to the adrenal medulla, the arbitrator between the 
brain and the sex organs, from which arise that multitude 
of desires or inhibitions which completely color the life 
of every individual. 

Neurasthenia—the popular diagnosis for listlessness 
and apparent nervous deficiency—nervous prostration— 
the temporary breakdown due to over-demand on the 
emergency supply of energy—are in fact only and solely 
an expression of adrenal insufficiency. Mental and mus¬ 
cular sluggishness, languor, a state of perpetual tiredness, 
or a recurring period of excess energy, followed imme¬ 
diately by days of recuperation, perhaps in bed, spell 
adrenal incapacity, and can be cured only by inducing 
this tiny laboratory to produce more of the life-giving 
fluid. 

Other Endocrines 

The Parathyroid, Pancreas, Thymus and Pineal also 
play important roles as glands of internal secretion. 

On only one of these, the Pancreas, is attention cen¬ 
tered today. The hormones of the Pancreas control 
sugar metabolism. When they fail Diabetes results. 

The function of the Pancreas is highly complex, both 
as to the influence of the pancreatic secretion upon diges¬ 
tion in general and upon what is now recognized as one 
of its paramount activities—the proper oxidation of 
sugars. 

This function is an attribute of the tiny island cells or 

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the Islands of Langerhans in the tail of the pancreas. 
A lack of functioning power in these cells—whether by 
reason of an actual degeneration in the structures them¬ 
selves, or in the decrease in their oxidizing power, due to 
the influence of toxins generated in the intestines and 
absorbed into the blood stream—is, without doubt, the 
determining factor in Diabetes. 

In other words, when the pancreatic gland fails to 
secrete the proper amount of its oxidizing substance 
(popularly known as insulin) the starch and sugar eaten 
in our food are not burned, to yield energy. We thus find 
the sugar in excess in the blood. It is also excreted in 
the urine in abnormal and pathological amounts—a grave 
and serious disorder, ultimately resulting in death. 

The Gonad Function (Sex Glands) 

Popularly, the gonads are recognized as glands of ex¬ 
ternal secretion, and historically they have been consid¬ 
ered as such, the vastly more important internal secretion 
having been entirely overlooked until recent time. 

Castration, or the physical alteration of the sex organs, 
is one of the oldest of surgical operations, dating into 
antiquity before the dawn of history. In fact, even up to 
the present day, the eunuch is a sad but familiar figure 
in the Near East. Unlimited observation of the effects 
of such operation has been available to physiologists for 
centuries,; yet the true import of the depletion of the in¬ 
ternal secretion with its transforming effect on all the 
chemical processes involved in metabolism and the growth 
and life of normal men and women has been missed. 

Nothing more completely changes the entire human 
organism than the removal or atrophy of this, the master 
gland of internal secretion. Such loss does not always 
cause death, although four out of five of the infants 
castrated in the vicious practice of producing harem 
guards for potentates throughout the world's history 
probably died in infancy. Also, women who have had 
the ovaries removed after maturity, while they seldom 

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lose their lives, almost invariably lose their sparkle of 
vivacity and gain the sluggish obesity familiar to every¬ 
one who sees. 

Volumes have been written on the almost autocratic 
control of the gonads on all the life processes, establish¬ 
ing beyond all question that normal, happy life is impos¬ 
sible without the proper functioning of this most import¬ 
ant wellspring of physical energy, healthy living, sound 
thinking, and all the wholesome relationships of society. 
Without proper gonad activity only strange and unnatural 
life exists, the kind usually shunned by fellow men and 
commonly termed “queer” or “psychopathic”. The 
gonads dominate the other endocrines to such extent that 
the whole company makes for health and happiness, the 
joy of living and the contentment of the soul. 


CHAPTER IV. 


Duplicating the Endocrine Chemistry 

We have learned that it is possible to regulate or 
stabilize glandular functioning to a large extent by arti¬ 
ficially supplying the body with a synthetic or organic 
substitute for the chemical substances produced by the 
Endocrines. But no substitute for the internal secretion 
of the gonads has ever been discovered or is even likely 
to be discovered. 

Pituitrin, Thyroxin, Adrenalin, and finally Insulin were 
given to the world. These are either made artificially 
or extracted from animals. But in both cases they are 
identical with the substances secreted by the different 
Endocrines. Valuable as these chemical discoveries are 
their use must be considered as that of temporarily sup¬ 
plying a particular hormone deficiency and hence not 
applicable to general rejuvenation treatment. 

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CHAPTER V 


The Interrelationship of the Endocrines 

In a study of the endocrines it was discovered that 
they all were connected with one another—a sort of in¬ 
terlocking directorate. 

The idea of a certain functional correlation and inter¬ 
relationship between different organs and different parts 
of the body is not new. Recently, however, the theory 
underwent a considerable development with regard to 
the endocrines. 

The individual members of this glandular system are 
very intimately connected with one another. This re¬ 
lationship is dependent on a chemical interchange of their 
specific secretions, accomplished by aid of the blood 
stream. This inter-dependence tends to keep the body 
as a whole in a condition of equilibrium. Thus the re¬ 
moval of one of these glands, or the cessation of its se¬ 
cretion, will have a deleterious effect upon the others, and 
tend to upset the equilibrium of the body generally. 

Where one gland is injured, or for any other reason 
furnishes an insufficiency of secretion, the others try to 
do its work. Yet the individual, with all his peculiarities, 
represents that trial balance between them, never perfect, 
proportionally imperfect as the endocrines lack proper 
proportion for healthy life. 

Either Mumps or Goitre affecting the thyroid gland 
secretion react quickly upon the gonads—often causing 
sterility. In fact, the removal or atrophy of any one of 
these glands has a profound effect upon the harmonious 
correlation of the internal secretions. 


CHAPTER VI. 


The Paramount Importance of the Gonads 
or Sex Glands 

That the sex glands, through their internal secretion, 
are masters of the endocrines seems entirely logical, since 
the whole of biology, plant and animal, is the story of 
survival and reproduction. 

Hundreds of careful workers, through thousands of 
experiments, too intricate and varied to be even tabulated 
here, have finally brought within the sphere of human 
knowledge an understanding of probably the greatest of 
man’s physiological discoveries, namely, that the great 
guiding force in our physical make-up is the sex gland, 
which controls in arbitrary fashion the entire endocrine 
system. For this reason scientists have concentrated un¬ 
limited effort here in the hope of finding some means of 
intelligent control. 

Dr. Janeway said many years ago, “The genital gland 
must be regarded as a true internal secretory gland, 
secreting a hormone which exerts a marked influence 
upon the other internal secretory glands, upon metabo¬ 
lism, the general power of growth of the body.” 

Dr. Brinkley says, “The gonads (sex glands) are not 
merely a link in the chain of the endocrines, but the 
dominating influence in the well-being of all the en¬ 
docrines. So that to make this point exactly clear, even 
defective thyroid glands can be most easily repaired by 
repair of the gonads. And so with all the glands of the 
chain.” 

The position of the gonads in the chain of the en¬ 
docrines is the master position. The well-being of all the 
endocrines is directly dependent upon the well-being of 
the gonads. Thus, a man is as old as his glands—and 

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his glands are as old as his sex glands. And the same is 
true of a woman. 

The source of all human energy is sex energy. This 
is another way of saying that the glandular system of 
Man is a chained system, or series of connected loops, 
mutually assisting or depressing each other by their secre¬ 
tions. Of this series the genital glands have the power 
of most directly stimulating and dominating the human 
body and mind by their particular kind of hormones 
manufactured by them and distributed in the blood 
stream for the nourishment of all the tissues of the body. 

That the sex gland has occupied a prominent place in 
history is shown by the literature of all peoples. Even 
the savages believed in gaining added strength and cour¬ 
age by eating the glands of their adversaries, and thus 
unwittingly stumbled upon the basis of a great scientific 
truth. The story of David, in I Kings 1-5, shows that 
long before the Christian Era the sex gland was re¬ 
garded as the barometer of a man’s mental and physical 
capabilities. 


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CHAPTER VII. 


Attempting Rejuvenation by Operation 

It is conceded that we cannot regulate or stabilize all 
glandular functioning by artificially supplying the body 
with a synthetic or other substitute of the chemical sub¬ 
stances produced by the endocrines. However, we have 
long known that the entire glandular system is linked to¬ 
gether, with the sex glands in control. The next step, 
obviously, was to find the proper means of treating these 
organs, thereby correcting the entire glandular system. 
In fact, scientists for many years have announced that 
the solution of the problems of rejuvenation lay within 
this province. 

But no substitute for the internal secretions of the 
gonads could be discovered. Extracts from various ani¬ 
mals were used. These, while they helped a little, did 
not solve the problem with the same beneficial results as 
did adrenalin in cases of adrenal deficiency. 

Then Lydston, Voronoff and others hit upon the prac¬ 
tice of actually substituting the glands of monkeys, goats 
and other animals for those of humans. This idea was 
not new or untried. In the case of the other glands it 
was discovered that a single piece of gland tissue from 
another person took up the work of producing secretions. 
A child with severe myxedema caused by faulty thyroid 
action was cured by implanting a portion of the thyroid 
gland of the mother in the child. This type of gland 
transplantation has been common for years. 

Therefore, as there was no known substitute for the 
secretion of the ovaries and testes, and as the other 
glands were improved by transplanting a piece of tissue 
from an animal or person, there seemed no reason why 
the same would not hold true for the sex glands. The 

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work of Dr. Serge Voronoff and others in this field is 
well known through his famous monkey gland opera¬ 
tion. This operation was rewarded with such a measure 
Dr. Voronoff performed the operation on numerous well- 
known surgeons as a demonstration of its success. 
Dr. Bartignes, Chief of Clinic of the Academy of Medi¬ 
cine, and Vice-president of the Society of Surgeons of 
France announced that of 44 operations performed all 
had shown the most beneficial results. 

No more important truth has come from the world¬ 
wide investigation into the endocrine functions than the 
absolutely certain evidence that while each endocrine 
gland must perform its special function, the control of 
this interlocking directorate rests with the interstitial 
gonads—the Chairman of the Board. “Old age and 
senility is not due” says Dr. Granet “to an ultimate using 
up of all organs, but to the lack of potential stimuli, due 
to the degeneration of the interstitial (sex) gland”. 
Dr. Granet has induced regeneration of the gonads (sex 
glands), and even after senile degeneration has been far 
advanced, the characteristics and marks of senility have 
entirely disappeared. 

These marvels of modern science were performed on 
animals, as well as on men and women. Many types 
of comparatively successful operations have been found, 
the best of which has been “the one-sided operation, 
which consists of tying with a ligature, under local 
aneasthesia, the duct leading from the generative part 
of the gland and obtaining compensatory regeneration in 
the interstitial portions”. 

This one-sided operation is declared by Dr. Granet 
to have been entirely sufficient in all cases. In addition 
to its beneficial character upon the entire system, it 
preserved the power of procreation. 

In spite of the wide success obtained with this last 
mentioned operation, a newer, milder and more success- 

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ful method of regeneration, entirely free from operation, 
was yet to be discovered. 

On October 23rd, 1920, the New York Medical Jour¬ 
nal, in an article by Dr. A. Granet, Instructor of Medi¬ 
cine at Columbia University, released in America the 
first information concerning Dr. Steinach and his work 
on rejuvenation. This paper was based upon one written 
by Professor Wilhelm Roux, famous the world over 
as the director of the Anatomical Institute at Halle, and 
on another written by Professor Dr. G. Holzknecht, 
Chief of the Central Roentgen Laboratory of the Al- 
gemeines Krankenhaus. This surprising array of scien¬ 
tific authority made an impression in medical circles 
comparable with an earthquake. 

Dr. Steinach had been quietly working on these sub¬ 
jects for many years, until in 1912 he gave for safe keep¬ 
ing to the Scientific Academy of Vienna the manuscript 
of his preliminary work, in order to establish priority. In 
1913 at the International Congress of Biology at Vienna, 
he first publicly showed the results of his work on 
animals. While the war greatly impeded scientific work 
of this sort in 1920 Dr. Steinach published his now 
famous book, entitled '‘Rejuvenation Through Experi¬ 
mental Regeneration of the Aging Interstitial Sex 
Glands.” This work has heard its echo ’round the world. 
Many medical men hasten to Vienna to see for them¬ 
selves. Today, the wave of popularity of the Steinach 
technique is sufficient evidence that the skepticism for 
which doctors are noted has disappeared. The scientific 
world stands convinced before the mass of living 
evidence. 

The preliminary work of Dr. Steinach and his co¬ 
workers was on birds, insects, amphibia and mammalia. 
This work as briefly related by Paul Kammerer is as 
follows: 

“For years Steinach has bred and raised healthy gen¬ 
erations of laboratory animals, has studied and observed 
their dispositions, habits, physical characteristics in all 

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the stages of their development with particular emphasis 
on sex development and characteristics of senility. His 
conclusive experiments he made on large rodents. He 
shows with an abundance of illustrations and photo¬ 
graphs the influence on the interstitial gland of those 
animals. The animals which have acquired all the char¬ 
acteristics of old age have a striking appearance. Their 
hair becomes bristle and sparse, they are timid and un¬ 
interested in the surroundings, the head is drooping, the 
spine is arched, the eyes have lost their tonus and their 
brightness, they do not seem to relish their food, they 
show loss of weight, muscular weakness, inability to 
climb, they don't fight other males nor pursue females, 
they harbor parasites. 

“The same animals two weeks after treatment begin to 
change. They begin to pick up their heads, the eyes 
brighten and regain their tonus, they become lively, 
watchful and playful, their appetite returns, the hair 
begins to grow, becomes thick, soft and glossy, they gain 
weight, they move about with new vigor and agility, they 
fight other males let into their cage, they pursue and 
possess the female and bring forth new generations 
which grow up into normal healthy adults". 

True rejuvenation was accomplished in this series of 
experiments by the simple operation of ligating the vas 
deferens. The increased resistance to disease and actual 
prolongation of life of the operated animals was greatly 
increased or extended. 

But the goal had not been reached. Still further study 
was needed. Steinach himself admitted that the real 
secret had yet to be discovered. 

What Controls The Glands 

Suddenly it occured to a number of scientific men to 
attack the problem from a new salient. 

Curious but progressive men wanted to know what 
controlled the chemical actions of the body, and, as a 
result, discovered the commanding role of the endocrines. 

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Once that truth was established, they asked “What gov¬ 
erns these glands?” And here was the new objective— 
a new quest of the Grail. 

It is agreed that the body is simply a chemical factory 
and that the chemical activities that convert a piece of 
bread into a piece of brain are controlled by the endoc- 
rines. Further, when an organ does not function pro¬ 
perly there is a call upon the other organs to help out. 
This requires increased effort on the part of the body 
chemistry, necessitating a change in the chemistry of the 
body fluids. Thus, from our knowledge of the endoc- 
rines, as fostering the entire chemical make-up of the 
body, we know they are called upon to do greatly in¬ 
creased work. If they can’t handle such reserve calls 
there is trouble. The way to overcome it is to correct the 
gland functioning, for normally we should have enough 
reserve power to take care of emergencies. 

To illustrate by common example—diabetes is caused 
by the failure of the pancreas (and to be accurate, the 
adrenal as well) to secrete the substances which naturally 
convert the sugar into energy. But why does this gland 
refuse to perform its work? If these endocrines run the 
whole body and are the last word, then they should not 
get out of order. If they are subject to outside influences 
then they are not the last word. We know that worry 
and hard work will upset human chemistry and drain the 
pancreas making it unable to care for sugar metabolism. 
Students approaching examinations, under great mental 
strain, frequently have an increase of sugar in the blood 
—temporary diabetes. 

There is no question regarding the endocrine control 
or the chemical activities of the body—but what is the 
power behind the throne? What kind of power runs 
this marvellously complex chemical factory of ours? 

Perhaps one of the first intimations along this line 
was the work of Professor Bordier of Lyons who placed 
great emphasis upon the rejuvenation effects of the X-ray 
applied in series to the endocrines. 


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As related in brief—“After the second or third series, 
anemic, withered complexions assumed a fresh, rosy, 
youthful appearance. General debility and mental de¬ 
pression were replaced by a flourishing state of health. 
This is due to the fact that the interstitial portion of the 
ovaries is not affected by the X-Ray, whereas colloidal 
albuminoid precipitation occurs in the cells of the Graafi¬ 
an Follicles, which are radio sensitive, the same as neo¬ 
plastic cells. The affected cells disappear later by auto¬ 
lysis (self-action), menopause sets in, and the interstitial 
portion, whose hormones produce the rejuvenating effect, 
remains functioning.” 

Another promising lead had been uncovered. 


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CHAPTER VIII 


From The Realm Of Chemistry, Surgery 
And Physiology Into The Field of Physics 

The Controller of all Activity 

Nothing moves without power, energy. Chemical 
functioning alone is not sufficient to operate the plant. 
We speak glibly of the brain “telegraphing” orders to 
the fingers to make them move. Even learned scientists 
failed to stop and analyze this statement. Look at your 
toe—move it at will. What actually makes the toe move ? 
Do you think the series of muscles, nerves and interre¬ 
lated mechanism can act so quickly, simply as pieces of 
matter? What is it that travels like a flash? 

No one hesitates for a second to answer “Electronic 
Forces”. 


A New Line Of Thought 

Sometime ago Professor Zwaardemaker of Zurich was 
experimenting in this new realm. He selected the potash 
in the blood as the agency for his studies On removing 
the potash from the blood stream the heart was found 
to stop beating. Even after the heart had ceased beating 
for thirty minutes it could be made to resume functioning 
again if the potash was restored. Pursuing his studies 
further, he found that instead of replacing the potash 
he could make the heart beat again simply by radiating 
it with radium—that is, “ionizing” it. 

Here, then, was a new line of thought. Potash emits 
radiating rays of electronic energy exactly like radium. 
Thus the blood is unquestionably dependent upon elect¬ 
ronic energy to maintain life. 


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Ionization 

Medical science was quick to turn to the physicist, 
who in the meanwhile had been playing with atoms, ions, 
electrons, protons and similar things. 

As is well known, everything on this earth is made 
up of atoms—the smallest particles of matter of which 
all substances, living or dead, are made. The atom is 
now proved to be a bundle or sphere of positive and 
negative electrical charges. The atom of gold is dif¬ 
ferent from the atom of lead only in its electrical or 
electron make-up, but less than one hundred different 
varieties of atoms, having different positive and negative 
proportions, constitute everything on earth. 

Thus, all matter—our body included—is composed of 
these electrical charges called atoms. 

Heat, flame, radium, potash, electricity and many 
other substances emit certain types of “radiations”. 
These radiations in passing through the air strike an 
atom and separate from it one or more of its electrical 
charges. This newly separated electrical unit or electron 
is then called an ion. Due to the impact of the radiation 
the ions travel at great speed and soon fill the air, which, 
when well charged with these ions, becomes an electrical 
field. The air is then said to be ionized. The same thing 
can happen in a solid like the body, so that if there are 
radiations sufficiently penetrating they can readily ionize 
the body tissue. 

Ionization within the human body is power, energy _ 

the same as ionization or an electrical force anywhere 
on earth. 

Professor Zwaardemaker showed that the heart 
stopped beating when the potash was extracted from the 
blood and started again when the potash was restored, 
or when the heart was radiated with radium. In other 
words, when the ionizing influences were removed the 
heart stopped—when they were restored it started beat¬ 
ing once more. Rather conclusive evidence that ioniza¬ 
tion was essential to life . 

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Even in plant life the effects of ionization have 
been demonstrated by scientists for years. Artificial 
light alone has sufficed to greatly increase plant growth 
due to its ionizing influences. Recent experiments along 
this line have been conducted at Columbia University as 
recorded in the New York Times, October 26, 1923. 
Sometime ago Professor Rusby doubled the growth of 
plants by root radiation. Becquerel has proved that plant 
life is endowed with a type of ionization of its own. 

Scientists long ago demonstrated that the basic factor 
of all metabolism is dependent on normal ionization and 
that radioactivity supplied a form of electronic energy 
that harmonized with all the phenomena of the body 
chemistry— that radioactivity restored the balance of 
chemistry by normalizing the ionization. 

Early Work With Radium 

Meanwhile leading physicians working with radium 
—the first-discovered but by no means the greatest radio¬ 
active element now known—had noticed that when the 
endocrines were radiated with radium an improved glan¬ 
dular functioning could be recognized, followed imme¬ 
diately by improved chemical activity throughout the 
body. 

As long ago as 1905 Dr. Robert Abbe of New York 
used radium on these glands to effect a physiological in¬ 
crease of function. Literature on radium for years has 
been strongly emphasizing the fact that radium regu¬ 
lates glandular secretions in a marked manner—thus 
giving a normalizing influence to the glands and revital¬ 
izing those that were sluggish or lazy—stimulating them 
to perform their proper work. It has been noted 
repeatedly that radium transmitted to the body a dynamic 
force which electrified and quickened to action the idle 
or inactive agents throughout the body. 

The Electronic Nature of the Body. 

Physiological science, equipped with new weapons, 
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was now able to answer the question “What controls the 
endocrines ?” Ionization is certainly the answer. Thus 
the perfected description of the body is, “a complex 
chemical laboratory supervized by the endocrines, the 
whole plant operating with marvellous precision under 
electronic influences or ionization.” The action of every 
particle of the body in its complex chemical functioning 
is due to this electronic supervision or ionization. The 
engine makes the automobile run, gasoline supplies the 
fuel but the spark is necessary or the rest is of no avail. 

Natural Electronic Functioning 

Whence does the body derive this electronic energy— 
this ionization? The answer is, from the chemical 
changes made within the body itself—food, water, and 
oxygen. We have shown that potash is one source, un¬ 
doubtedly the chief one but of course there are others. 
We feed gasoline to the engine, which generates electri¬ 
cal power, which in turn controls the engine. To the 
chemist and the physicist the existence of a similar pro¬ 
cess in the human body is easily understood. Here is 
the perfect balance—the most delicate adjustment known 
to man. It is an endless chain —the body, a self-con¬ 
tained power plant, energizing and controlling its entire 
structure through the endocrines by electronic action— 
ionization—which the body supplies to the endocrines 
by virtue of the chemical processes supervised by the 
endocrines themselves. 

In health, the chemistry of the body creates just the 
amount of electronic energy necessary to stabilize and 
regulate the new chemistry and new glandular substances 
constantly being formed. When the endocrines become 
sluggish and lazy and fail to function properly because 
of insufficient ionization to keep them at work, disease 
and lack of resistance to parasitic germ life appear. It 
is evident that that if the endocrines can be restored to 
proper functioning by artificial ionization, we can auto- 

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matically compel the glands to start the chain of chemical 
processes that brings back normal body ionization. This 
naturally is all that is needed to restore bodily vigor— 
life, in all its phases of health and activity. 

There is no question that the purpose of ionization is 
to regulate and stabilize the functioning of the body. 
When there is a call for more stabilizing ionization than 
the body can supply, owing to unbalanced food or living 
conditions, it must be artificially supplied before, and in 
order that, normal conditions can be restored. If the 
necessary ionization fails to come naturally from the 
body, health fails—the glands do not receive sufficient 
energy to make them function properly—and we remain 
ill until the glandular balance is restored. Old age and 
senility are nothing more than chronic ailments due to 
sub-ionization. 

The first glimpse of the great biological postulate that 
ionization and electronic activity lie at the very heart of 
cell life, and that the wearing away of vital energies was 
not the fault of the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the 
spleen, but was merely a lessening of the electronic force, 
came only since the discovery of radioactivity and the 
founding of the electron theory. In other words the de¬ 
cline of life powers in the human organism is now known 
to be an approach, due to its lessened electronic force, 
toward the inorganic matter to which the body returns 
when life flickers out. 

Today we are satisfied that the invisible force that 
makes life possible is the ionizing action in the body and 
that disease, sterility, old age, senility and other faults 
of metabolism are due to lack of it. 

A few years ago science knew no more of this in¬ 
visible electronic control than it knew about radio-tele¬ 
graphy or the vacuum tube. Until the discovery of 
radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and the X-Ray by 
Roentgen the whole science of electronic activity was a 
closed book. From this moment the world took a new 
stride and step by step the trend of scientific develop- 

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ment led directly to the treatment of the body by ioniza¬ 
tion. Artificial ionization within the body alters the 
character of certain cells. Physiologists have recently 
proved that the endocrine structures are, of all the 
body’s cells, the most sensitive to electronic action. In 
fact, a famous scientist recently announced that the en- 
docrines contained, in health, nearly 90% highly ionized 
matter. The fact is irrefutable that our body needs elec¬ 
tronic stimulation—ionization—through the medium of 
the endocrines to make it function at all. Death ensues 
when the electronic impulses leave the body. Life has 
actually been experimentally restored when the electronic 
impulses were applied . 

In this connection I must mention the recent announce¬ 
ment made by Dr. George W. Crile, one of the leading 
scientists in this field of work in America, at the conven¬ 
tion of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago on 
October 22, 1923. Dr. Crile said in part: 

“Man is simply a mechanism run by electricity and 
chemical reaction. Emotions—love, hate, fear—are but 
stimuli loosing currents of electricity through certain 
paths. 

“The energy which makes Babe Ruth hit homers, 
which drives the feet of the business man to work, which 
works the fingers of the typist and causes Jack Dempsey 
to drive his right for a knockout is electricity. 

“The greater the difference in electrical potential the 
greater energy the body possesses. With death the dif¬ 
ferences of potential vanishes. All becomes equilibrium. 
Fatigue makes this difference less. Sleep restores it. 

“The electrical machine is a thousand times more min¬ 
ute and delicately arranged than the most delicate in¬ 
struments made by man. We consider that electricity 
keeps the flame of life burning in the cell, and the flame 
—oxidation—supplies electricity used in operating the 
animal. 

“There is no more energy per mass in the living than 
in the non-living. In the living, energy is captured and 

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stored and made to run the organism—in the non-living 
the same energy exists, but balances, is equalized, inert. 

“Two streams of water flow swiftly, each seeking the 
lowest level—equilibrium. One is caught and retarded, 
thereby building up a potential energy of position, as in 
a mill race; in its further course this retardation is sud¬ 
denly released, and in the discharge of this acquired po¬ 
tential energy of position a water wheel is turned and 
heat or light or electricity is generated. 

“This form of control of lie body activity—ionization 
—has stood the test of the surgical clinic.” 

Re-ionizing the endocrines should, therefore, restore 
their functioning—revitalizing, rejuvenating and rein¬ 
vigorating the entire living process—bringing to the 
aging system a new tenure of life. That this has been 
brought to pass is the next great chapter of the story. 


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CHAPTER IX. 


The New Steinach Radiation Treatment 

Again we turn to Dr. Eugen Steinach, who to-day 
stands foremost among the world’s specialists as the 
great discoverer of the simple means of radiation-rejuve¬ 
nation, whereby enormously beneficial results may be 
obtained without surgical process. 

To day Dr. Steinach’s clinic in Vienna and other radia¬ 
tion-rejuvenation clinics in Vienna and Paris are the 
Meccas of thousands who seek their great and lasting 
benefits. The public press in America carries number¬ 
less communications and cables from Europe, setting 
forth the success and vogue of these treatments and 
arousing the interest of the entire world. 

Unusual success had attended Dr. Steinach’s ligating 
operation. Yet, casting about for an improved rejuvena¬ 
tion technique this great scientist began to experiment 
with endocrine ionization. After treating cases for a 
very long period he published the amazing results of his 
experience in ionizing the sex glands. He told how he 
had found that radiation revitalized the atrophied or 
sluggish sex glands, stimulated them to a new activity, 
thus enabling them to perform their proper work of 
pouring their special hormones into the human circula¬ 
tion, urging the other glands on to the fullest activity. 

After three years of constant use there are perhaps no 
more startling demonstrations in the world of man’s con¬ 
quest of his physical self than those being performed in 
increasing numbers by Dr. Steinach and his disciples in 
Vienna and Paris. 

What Dr. Steinach actually did was to take advantage 
of the tremendous development work done by hundreds 
of other scientists in proving 

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1— that the body operates under electronic or ioniz¬ 
ing influences, and 

2— that the proper electronic or ionizing influences 
could be supplied to the body artificially. 

Therefore, Steinach marked a new epoch by using a 
new method of radiation that ionized the sex glands. 
His method of doing this was largely through the X-Ray 
and applied chiefly to women, continuing to a large ex¬ 
tent the ligating work with men. 

The widest interest is excited in America at the present 
time by the reports of specialists in radiation-therapeu¬ 
tics, describing the wonderful rejuvenating properties of 
the Steinach radiation treatment. Aged women with 
withered breasts and wrinkled faces have been restored 
to buxom middle-age appearance and physical function¬ 
ing. Actresses and dancers, whose feminine charms are 
an indispensible asset in their profession, have been 
brought safely back from beyond the “dangerous age” 
—alive once more with their old fire and fervor. Busi¬ 
ness men, staggering wearily under their load of 
responsibility, were refurbished—mentally, physically 
and dynamically—by the beneficient action of endocrine 
radiation. 

So definite are the results in these cases that eminent 
physicians and medical instructors come before medical 
societies and read papers on systemic rejuvenation, de¬ 
veloped by radiation of the endocrine glands. 

The world acknowledges a debt of gratitude to 
Dr. Eugen Steinach for his masterful demonstration 
that radiation brought unmistakable rejuvenation. A 
large measure of praise must also be awarded to Dr. 
Harry Benjamin of New York who has done much to 
bring this famous treatment to the attention of the medi¬ 
cal men of this country. Yet there were several phases 
of the Steinach technique that required improvement 
before general rejuvenation was an assured success. 
Some of these improvements were vital and have changed 

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the whole tenor of the radiation-rejuvenation treatment 
as will readily be seen. 

Rejuvenation by X-Ray stimulation of the endocrines 
was an assured fact. Of this there could be no particle of 
doubt. But X-Ray treatment for this purpose as made 
famous by Steinach was not unlikely to entail dangerous 
or even disastrous consequences. In commenting on this 
matter Dr. Morris Fishbein, Associate Editor of the 
Journal of the American Medical Association, recently 
declared: 

“When the X-Ray is turned upon the female 
gland, the reproductive elements, which are es¬ 
pecially sensitive, are destroyed, and the inter¬ 
stitial cells are increased.” 

I am personally convinced that Dr. Fishbein sounded 
a note of warning here on this important question and 
thus aided in advancing the work already done in improv¬ 
ing on these methods. 

In order to make the Steinach technique a thoroughly 
practical and safe method two distinct improvements 
were needed. One was a means of radiation that would 
overcome the disadvantages of the X-Ray. The other 
was to develop a radiation method that would not de¬ 
stroy the reproductive elements. Steinach felt that he 
had to destroy certain cells—in short, sterilize to a large 
extent—to achieve success. It was found, after extended 
and accurately checked experimentation, that, by a care¬ 
fully balanced technique of radiation, evoking physiolo¬ 
gical response from the various endocrines, it became un¬ 
necessary to destroy any cells, as this balanced technique 
took a load off the gonads caused by inefficiency in the 
interlocking endocrines. We thus obtain a stimulation 
of the interstitial cells in the same manner as does the 
Steinach technique. Thus there was no necessity for 
using a powerful X-Ray to destroy cells and furthermore 
the same treatment that applied in Steinach’s own work 
on women woulcj naturally be as efficacious in the case 
of men. Furthermore, the X-Ray treatment, in addition 

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to the likelihood of producing complete sterilization, in¬ 
volves the loss of much time to the busy man or woman. 

Therefore, new means of radiating the endocrines were 
developed through the use of newer ray devices described 
in a later chapter, and these have proved so superior to 
older methods that, while their use is an adaptation of the 
Steinach technique, there is no comparison in safety of 
application, convenience, expense involved or physiologi¬ 
cal results secured. 

These newer methods are now developed into an exact 
and comprehensive science to which the name Radien- 
docrinology is applied. So totally different is this new 
type of treatment, as first demonstrated by Dr. Steinach 
and further developed by others, that it has had a re¬ 
volutionizing effect on medical practice. Hundreds 
of physicians are rapidly acquiring knowledge along 
these lines and the number of Radiendocrinologists is 
amazinglyincreasing. This is the new-day science for 
rejuvenation. 


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CAPTER X. 


Methods of Ionization 

The good hot water bottle has been a standby for 
years, yet its virtues were little realized to be due to 
ionization. The healing influences of the sun have been 
recognized for centuries. This is entirely an ionizing 
process. Ultra-violet rays, high-frequency current, yel¬ 
low-red neon rays, the so-called crystal light or quartz 
lamp, and other still newer discoveries operate solely 
through their power of setting up a radiation that ionizes 
the body tissues. But none of these are adaptable to the 
work of radiating the endocrines, since they have only 
a surface action, without the penetration necessary for 
sub-surface effect. 

Science, however, has made two discoveries that have 
the power of ray penetration. One is the high-capacity, 
focused X-Ray; the other is focused radioactivity. By 
both methods rays or radiations can be sent deeply into 
the body, or directly through it, there to ionize the radio¬ 
sensitive glandular structures. These are the only known 
means of effectively directing ionizing energy into the 
body for radiendocrine purposes. 

Steinach did much work with the X-Ray, which 
developed great inconvenience and possible injury. 
To-day the X-Ray is practically discarded for radien- 
docrinological work. Radiendocrination technique de¬ 
pends on deep-ray or short electro-magnetic wave 
lengths, applied directly to the endocrines, giving an 
uninterrupted flow of ionizing energy, keeping the 
glands youthfully charged throughout the treatment. 
Nature then continues the work, as is natural in all con¬ 
ditions where normal stimulus is applied. The applica¬ 
tion of this type of radiation is possible for individual 
use only by radioactivity. 


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Therefore, in order to adapt the Steinach technique to 
general use and to extend the blessings of radiendocri- 
nology, a tremendously involved technical research was 
necessary in order to produce the powerful yet safe 
sources of essential rays for penetrating and ionizing. 
This has been made possible through the effort of the 
foremost European scientists in the field of radioactivity. 

The Radiendocrinator is the result of this profound 
research work. 


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CHAPTER XI. 


The Radiendocrinator 

The Radiendocrinator, physically speaking, is the 
most efficient device yet produced for the Steinach treat¬ 
ment of rejuvenation by radiation. It differs somewhat, 
as stated, from the older ray sources, but the rays are 
the same in speed, absorption co-efficients and scattering 
power, yet with some even more penetrating rays. Hence 
the identical physiological results are obtained wherever 
used as in the now famous European clinics for rejuve¬ 
nation. The Radiendocrinator' is a distinct improvement 
over the bulkier apparatus used in some clinics, for it 
gives greater ease and simplicity of application and 
greater certainty of satisfactory results. Besides, it is 

suitable for home treatment. 

The Radiendocrinator is built up of radioactive mater¬ 
ials which send forth from the instruments an unending 
stream of powerful ray-charges that penetrate the en- 
docrines and ionize them. It is this ionization that pro¬ 
duces the life-renewing effects in the radiendocrination 
treatment. One may liken it to a powerful beam of sun¬ 
shine turned into the dark interior recesses of the body 
and there focused on the waning vital spark of life. 

The Radiendocrinator sends a stream of electrons di¬ 
rectly through the tissues of the body, subjecting the en¬ 
docrine cells to a bombardment which seems to stimulate 
every cell into new activity. With this electronic force 
ionizing the glandular tissue and aiding in the formation 
of new cellular matter, there is a new supply of hormones 
created which, passing with the blood stream, acceler¬ 
ates every healthy, normal life process. 

To produce such effect it was necessary to perfect a 
new scientific formula—a precise method that might be 

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relied upon for safe and certain effect. Various radio¬ 
active substances were so disposed in the instrument as 
to direct into the body in a harmless manner not only 
the deep rays but also a proper proportion of measured, 
filtered rays. 

How Ionization is Produced by the 
Radiendocrinator 

The method by which radioactive substances produce 
ionization is comparatively simple to understand. All 
atoms possess an enormous store of latent electronic en¬ 
ergy. In ordinary substances this energy is what holds 
the atoms together. Were it not for this the earth would 
disintegrate. Rut radioactive materials, such as radium, 
are actually disintegrating. They insist on disrupting 
their unstable atoms and releasing the atomic energy. So 
great is this energy that in a single gram of radium, a 
mere fifteen grains, there is stored sufficient energy to 
run an Atlantic steamship. 

As the atom disrupts with a violent explosion its tiny 
elements, accompanied by powerful waves, are shot into 
space with terrific speed. These are rays. Their 
velocity varies from 6,000 to 186,000 miles a second. 
This disruption goes on with the utmost precision, so 
that from the Radiendocrinator there are shot forth spon¬ 
taneously millions of rays of various types per second. 

The Radiendocrinator is the most remarkable example 
of concentrated energy in the world—the most advanced 
radioactive metallurgy the laboratory has brought forth. 
These instruments weigh only a few ounces each, yet 
they are so constructed that they can be worn on the 
body as easily and comfortably as a folded kerchief. 
Physically they consist of a compound construction of 
the rarest elements known to science. They are built up 
of a series of special and rare metal plate and screen 
laminations charged with radioactive elements according 

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to an exact formula, so that the body receives the dif¬ 
ferent types of screened radiations so vitally essential and 
especially adapted to the ionization of the endocrines. 
Some of the elements used are a hundred times more 
active and a hundred times more expensive than radium. 

The Radiendocrinator is charged to give intensive ra¬ 
diation for a period of seven years and a gentle, tonic 
stimulation for twenty years thereafter. The devices are 
light, sanitary and comfortable. They are primarily 
worn at night while asleep. 

The complete equipment for “home rejuvenation treat¬ 
ment” as furnished each patient consists of a pair of 
Radiendocrinators, with means for comfortably attach¬ 
ing them to the body. The outfit complete comes in a 
lead-lined, portable case. 

The Energy of the Radiendocrinator 

The Radiendocrinator is an extremely complex appara¬ 
tus, despite its small size and apparent simplicity of con¬ 
struction. Yet it is not difficult to comprehend the basic 
principle by which it operates. 

It may be briefly described as a “silent generator of 
stupendous electronic energy.” 

There are 37 distinct types of radiations produced in 
the Radiendocrinator. These rays vary in size from that 
of a helium nucleus to electrons 1/1700 the size of the 
hydrogen atom. Their velocity varies from 6000 miles 
a second to the velocity of light—186,000 miles a second. 
This gives the body a wide variety of radiation. 

The penetrating power of the different rays produced 
varies considerably—depending on certain conditions in¬ 
herent in the atomic action, as well as the carefully de¬ 
signed structure of the instrument itself. The laminated 
arrangement of metals and the scientific series of screen¬ 
ings have been worked out on a formula to give a particu¬ 
lar type of radiation. From the most penetrating rays 
known to man to rays that approach concentrated, filtered 

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sunlight, emanations are emerging continuously from the 
instrument. The strongest rays are those of the shortest 
wave length known (1/10 Langstrom unit, or one hun¬ 
dred millionth of a centimeter). 

The number of the combined rays produced in a pair 
of Radiendocrinators is estimated to exceed eighteen 
thousand million a minute. The total number of ions 
created on the basis of Sir Ernest Rutherford’s estimates 
would be a million trillion a minute. 

Some idea of the enormous storehouse of energy that 
is being drawn upon to furnish this marvellous radiation 
will be realized when I state that the estimated difference 
of potential required to produce a single one of those 
radiations would be 2,000,000 volts—equivalent to a 16 
foot spark gap. When it is understood that that is several 
times the voltage of the most powerful X-Rays ever pro¬ 
duced one grasps some idea of the tremendous powers 
built into the recesses of this small device. Delicate elec¬ 
trical instruments detect the presence of a Radiendocri¬ 
nator. nearly half a mile away. Underdeveloped photo 
negatives, paper or film is fogged by the rays from the 
Radiendocrinator twenty feet away regardless of wrap¬ 
pings or cases or walls. Yet these small instruments are 
worn with comfort and perfect safety at night while 
asleep for the rays have a marvellously invigorating 
effect. 


Making the Rays Visible 

To Sir William Crookes of England is given the credit 
of haying made it possible to actually see the powerful 
radiations generated in the Radiendocrinator. His for¬ 
mula was incorporated in the instrument for this pur¬ 
pose. 

Ordinarily no rays are visible to the human eye, as the 
terrific speed with which they are shot through the screen¬ 
ing, as well as their small size makes them invisible with¬ 
out some other aid. Therefore, according to Sir William 
Crookes’ formula a tiny trace of Sidot’s Hexagonal 

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Blend is placed in contact with the radioactive substances. 
When the radiations strike the crystals of this Blend they 
are lighted up like a shower of shooting stars. 

In order to make it possible to see this array of lighted 
meteors a lens of high magnification and definition is 
supplied with the instruments. While the powerful radia¬ 
tion will discharge a fully loaded electroscope instantly 
at a considerable distance, yet an optical demonstration, 
such as is possible with this lens, gives anyone the most 
convincing evidence of the tremendous radiation pouring 
forth in a continuous stream to ionize the body. 


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CHAPTER XII. 


Physiological Results of 
Radiendocrinological Treatment 

The Science of Radiendocrinology—rejuvenation by- 
radiation—means increased health to both body and mind. 
Whatever helps the body must have an equally helpful 
effect upon the mind. Therefore, rejuvenation means a 
regeneration of the mental through regeneration of the 
physical and physiological. 

It has been made plain that the sex glands in young 
or old are the foundation of the entire endocrine system. 
For this reason rejuvenation treatment begins with the 
sex glands. Once this basic controlling factor becomes 
normalized and adjusted to mature or youthful function¬ 
ing, the entire glandular system takes on a new activity, 
bringing about astonishing results. In other words, once 
radiendocrination succeedes in restoring the proper bal¬ 
ance to the endocrines, new life is felt in every fibre and 
made evident in every move. Indeed, youthful face and 
form, together with renewed mental capacities, is the 
object quite frequently sought by those now taking the 
rejuvenation treatment. 

While the Steinach treatment concerns itself largely 
with the gonads, the Radiendocrinator is adapted to all 
the endocrines, assisting in their return to youthful func¬ 
tioning by direct local radiation. These advantages may 
be had in conjunction with the gonad radiation. This 
technique is utilized to surprising advantage in the Radi¬ 
endocrinator Home Treatment. 

Practically all ailments except germ diseases are due 
to faulty glandular functioning. Even these diseases are 
largely the result of low resistance from ductless gland 
dysfunction. The direct cause of these ailments may be 

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given as imperfect chemical action or disordered meta¬ 
bolism. But the basic failure is to be found in the en- 
docrines and their unbalanced hormones. It is obvious, 
therefore, that restoration of endocrine functioning is the 
proper means for successfully attacking diseases. A 
famous surgeon recently remarked that his best treatment 
for goitre in women, for example, was to treat the ovaries 
and thus cure the goitre, as an abnormal condition of 
the ovaries actually causes the goitre. 

No one needs to be told when his or her body is show¬ 
ing signs of rejuvenation. When the skin becomes clearer, 
the wrinkles disappear, the memory sharpens, the eye 
brightens, the circulation improves, the sexual organs be¬ 
come intensified and bodily ailments begin to disappear, 
true rejuvenation may be said to be effective. 

Thus, technically speaking, rejuvenation may be needed 
by a person of 30 as well as by one of 60. In its broad 
sense rejuvenation may be taken to mean restoration to 
normal of all endocrine glandular functioning, and a con¬ 
sequent amelioration of the most common ailments, a few 
of which have been noted below. 

Diabetes 

Every doctor knows that Diabetes Mellitus is purely a 
gland failure. Dieting has rarely led to a complete cure 
in this insidious disease. When the pancreas and adre¬ 
nals fail to function as Nature intended, the chemistry 
that converts sugar into energy for the nourishment of 
the body is upset, and the sugar finds its way unutilized 
into the blood and urine. A diet free from sugar will 
not overcome this disturbed metabolism. Therefore, the 
only proper treatment is to induce the pancreas and adre¬ 
nals to turn the sugar into needed energy. Insulin, the 
chemical equivalent of the pancreatic hormone, is a new 
means of obtaining this sugar-converting chemistry arti¬ 
ficially and temporarily. It must be given daily to supply 
the constant deficiency of the gland. If, on the other 
hand, the gonads are made to function normally, they in 

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turn bring about a direct normalizing influence on the 
pancreas and adrenals. Moreover, through this new 
form of treatment the pancreas and adrenals can be di¬ 
rectly reached. Once these endocrines are regulated and 
operate in perfect harmony, sugar assimilation becomes 
a natural operation. 

Diseases of tiif Kidnj-ys 

Kidney diseases of some kinds, Bright’s Disease and 
Nephritis, are due largely to infection. Where the in¬ 
fection is severe there is a dangerous drain on the en¬ 
docrines, since, like the local fire department, they are 
called upon to exert emergency effort in stopping the con¬ 
flagration. All doctors know that one of the primary 
functions of the endocrines is their anti-toxic role. 

By radiating the endocrines the hormones are stimu¬ 
lated to increased activity and are thus rendered capable 
of attacking toxic conditions in the kidneys and holding 
back their ravages. The toxin-fighting powers of the 
hormones can be greatly enhanced by radiendocrination. 

The Prostate 

The Prostate is contained in the gland chain system, 
although itself not a ductless gland. It receives direct 
hormone infiltration and regeneration from the testes. 
While direct radiation of the prostate has proven exceed¬ 
ingly beneficial, far more satisfactory results have been 
obtained in prostate conditions by toning up the gonads 
through radiendocrinology and thus pouring increased 
numbers of revitalizing hormones into the prostate. 

The Fundamental Cause of Obesity 
and 

Treatment by Radiation 

Obesity is quite generally a definite disorder of meta¬ 
bolism. It is due largely to faulty thyroid and pituitary 
gland action. When something goes wrong with these 
endocrines there is a lack of sufficient hormone-produc- 

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ing fluid which normally cares for the fats, either con¬ 
verting them into brain or nerve energy, or else in pre¬ 
paring them for excretion. Until the thyroid and pituitary 
are restored to normal, true obesity can rarely be success¬ 
fully corrected. 

Lengthening Life by Softening Arteries 

Arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, with its 
accompanying high blood pressure, have almost invariably 
yielded to radiendocrination. This is a condition where 
there is scar tissue or fibrous deposits on the walls of the 
arteries, thus making it difficult for the blood to flow 
through these vessels. This brings about increased blood 
pressure, due to the resistance when the blood is trying 
to flow through a greatly reduced area. This pressure 
often causes rupture of one of the smaller arteries of the 
brain, resulting in a stroke—apoplexy. 

The hormones from the gonads possess the power of 
seeking out this scar tissue as they travel through the 
blood stream, and dissolving or absorbing it by a chemical 
process excited by the hormones. The general result is 
an elastic condition of the arteries, which permits the 
blood to flow through more freely. When arterial ob¬ 
structions are removed by the stimulated energized hor¬ 
mones from the endocrines blood pressure returns to 
normal. 

Not only is this recognized by the usual blood pressure 
tests, but also the eyesight, physical strength, energy, en¬ 
durance and mental powers are directly and notably im¬ 
proved. From this class of ailments alone it is said that 
2500 die every day in the United States. Therefore, the 
application of radiendocrinology for the purpose of over¬ 
coming hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure 
is a tremendous benefit to humanity. 

What the Teeth Tell 

Soft teeth and other dental troubles are due largely to 
faulty internal chemistry, despite the pretty appeals in 

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dentifrice advertising. The modern dentist, schooled in 
the ways of up-to-date science, looks carefully to the en¬ 
docrine make-up of his patient. Volumes are being added 
to the science of endocrinology in its relation to the teeth 
and other body extremities, such as the skin and hair, 
which are quick to show signs of faulty endocrine action. 

The scholarly dental surgeon knows that the endocrines 
absolutely control the processes involved in the make-up 
of the teeth and gums. In revivifying the activities of 
the endocrines by radiendocrination, surprising results 
have been obtained in rendering the teeth and gums firm 
and healthy, even in advancing years. This should be a 
subject of paramount importance to everyone who still 
has teeth. 


Some Other Common Ailments 

The increased production of revitalized hormones after 
radiation acts in anemia to increase the red blood cells. 
Doctors have been amazed at the quick increase of the 
red blood count after endocrine treatment with the Ra- 
diendocrinator. 

In arthritis the action of the newly enlivened hormones 
arising from the radiendocrination treatment tends to re¬ 
move the scar tissue, thus restoring circulation to the 
affected area, and reducing the condition of rigidity which 
characterizes this disease. 

Gout can be properly treated only by correcting meta¬ 
bolism. All metabolic processes are increased, assimila¬ 
tion and elimination are improved when the endocrines 
send an increased supply of hormones into the blood 
stream. 

Rheumatism is largely caused by a germ (the strepto¬ 
coccus) which can exert its harmful influence only when 
the body becomes under-ionizied. When radiendocrina¬ 
tion treatment is given, the body receives increased ioni¬ 
zation and the hormones are better able to demonstrate 
their anti-toxic powers. Rheumatism has been wiped out 
in many cases as by magic by radiendocrination. 

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Acidosis is a common ailment, due to failure of the 
endocrines to compel proper elimination of excess acids. 
The radiendocrination treatment operates to correct this 
condition perhaps more quickly than all the chemical 
elements ever used in correctives. 

Sciatica, neuralgia and neuritis are commonly grouped 
as one class of ailment, although of different type. In 
fact, neurasthenia, insomnia and general nervous condi¬ 
tions may well be grouped together as far as endocrine 
functioning is concerned. In all these conditions the 
radiendocrination treatment brings blessed relief, since 
the entire nervous system is marvellously controlled by 
the hormones, activated by radiation or ionization. 

Vertigo, chronic headache, diarrhea, constipation, in¬ 
digestion, colitis, flatulency and a host of similar ailments 
are quite generally due to faulty chemistry action in the 
stomach and intestines. When the endocrines are acti¬ 
vated by radiendocrination the stimulated hormones sent 
into the blood stream quickly regulate the chemistry, with 
astounding results. 

The decrease of pain in Locomotor Ataxia, myalgia 
and other ailments is brought about to a large extent by 
the action of the hormones, properly ionized by radien¬ 
docrination, in promoting absorption and secretion and in 
helping to remove the causes of the pain. 

Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and many ailments, gen¬ 
erally known as “woman’s complaints’', are ideally 
adapted for radiendocrination treatment, due to the 
prompt response of the glandular substances to ioniza¬ 
tion. 

Congested and inflamed conditions, such as sinus in¬ 
fection, are favorably influenced by this treatment. In¬ 
fluenza, colds, grippe, etc., which are distinctly germ 
diseases, are very responsive to increased endocrine 
stimulation. With the endocrines functioning properly 
through the work of the ionized hormones they ward off 
the attack of these germs. Thus in the field of preventa- 

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tive medicine radiendocrinology opens up a wide vista of 
possibilities. 

The vast majority of our ailments, barring those of 
mechanical injury, may be traced by the scientist to our 
endocrine difficulties. It is not claimed that all these 
may be overcome by radiendocrinology, yet it is an ab¬ 
solutely undeniable fact that if the endocrines can be 
brought to a normal healthy state freedom from ills will 
be enjoyed past all expectations. 

The Problem Of The Undeveloped Woman 

In every school or college in the land and in numberless 
homes there are young women, single and married,— 
weak, pale, listless, lacking in energy and vitality. They 
maintain progress in their affairs only by constantly 
drawing upon their depleted reserves of physical and 
dynamic strength. 

These young women, naturally bright, vivacious and 
of a cheerful, happy disposition, are forced to appear 
dull—even stupid—by their incoherence, their inability 
to think clearly and to correlate the information they have 
acquired with the exigencies of the moment. 

They may be unsocial—not by nature—but because of 
the embarrassment which contact with older persons, or 
with bright, vivacious persons of their own age, causes 
them. Instead of bubbling over with the joy of life, 
which is the normal heritage of every young woman, 
they are reserved, silent and retiring, or they may vary 
completely from day to day. 

They are nervous, “high-strung” and irritable—sub¬ 
ject to headache, neuritis or neuralgia. Their sleep is 
disturbed and unrefreshing. They are of the type that 
may slip unconsciously into the bromide and the veronal 
habit. 

Not infrequently they develop hypochondria (or mel¬ 
ancholy), bursting into tears for little or no apparent 
reason, and in many cases these “lovely orchids of civ¬ 
ilization” have planned or accomplished suicide. 


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These young women frequently suffer from nervous 
dyspepsia and the fermentation and auto-intoxication 
brought about by this disorder. Their deficiency in ner¬ 
vous energy usually predisposes them to constipation— 
which further aggravates their condition by favoring 
the absorption of toxins from the intestines into the 
blood. 

Their menstruation is scanty and irregular—the entire 
genital system is frequently undeveloped—remaining 
often after marriage in the adolescent or semiadoles¬ 
cent condition. Even after child-birth these traits may 
remain. 

Thyroid troubles, either from an excess or a deficiency 
of thyroid secretion, is of common occurence among 
them—manifested either in an unsightly enlargement of 
the gland of the neck—together with all the symptoms of 
“hyper-thyroidism”—or too much thyroid secretion; or 
else in that sluggishness and apathy, or chronic “sleepy- 
headedness” found with “hypo-thyroidisrri”, or too little 
thyroid secretion. 

The skin of these girls is likely to be sallow and “liver- 
spotted”. They are prone to develope pimples, boils and 
many forms of mild skin eruptions. Their eyes lack 
lustre, and the sparkle and brightness of healthy youth. 

This entire condition, or any predominating complex of 
its symptoms, is primarily an endocrine disorder, due to 
improper functioning of the adrenal glands, the thyroid, 
the ovaries or perhaps the pituitary, and sometimes the 
other glands, as well. 

To attempt to correct these troubles by the administra¬ 
tion of gland extracts is, with our present knowledge of 
endocrinology, extremely difficult except in rare cases. 

And yet, all this is accomplished quite uniformly by 
Radiendocrinology, the marvellously successful applica¬ 
tion of the radiation technic, as first used by Professor 
Steinach and his pupils in Vienna, and as more completely 
expanded by the newer school of Radiendocrinologists. 

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I earnestly believe that it is possible to bring about an 
absolutely normal condition in the vast majority of these 
patients, and by means that are free from operation, ab¬ 
solutely safe, and devoid of any possibility of harm—no 
matter what the gland defect may be—whether over- 
active or under-active. 

By means of this treatment we have been able to ac¬ 
complish results, which, but a few years ago, would have 
been considered nothing short of miraculous. 

We have restored to perfect health and functioning 
power scores of young women in a most deplorably ner¬ 
vous and physical state—undeveloped, thin, pale and 
adolescent. 

We have seen these young women absolutely trans¬ 
formed in a few brief months of treatment—blossoming 
like a rose—the hue of ruddy health in their cheeks, the. 
sparkle of quick life in their eye, the restored muscle- 
tone showing in every springy step and every animated 
movement. 

I am convinced, from my experience with these 
methods, that there is nothing in the practice of medicine 
or in the application of radiendocrinology more interest¬ 
ing or more satisfactory than is the solution of the prob¬ 
lem of the undeveloped woman. 

My Personal Experiences 

While many thousands of cases of varying degrees of 
retarded development, senile decay, etc., have been suc¬ 
cessfully treated in Europe by Radiendocrination I per¬ 
sonally have to date treated by these methods scores 
of patients. Many of them were well advanced in senes¬ 
cence. Others suffered from some form of functional 
neurosis. 

The results in a number of these cases were nothing 
short of astonishing. One man of sixty-four, with acid¬ 
osis, nervous dyspepsia and putrefactive intestinal fer¬ 
mentation—evidenced by the extremely high percentage 
of indican in the urine—lack of memory and general 

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mental incoordination, tachycardia and marked asthenia, 
became vigorous and robust. The urea and uric acid 
balance was restored. His stomach and intestinal condi¬ 
tion cleared up; the indican disappeared from the urine. 
His memory and general mental functioning improved to 
an amazing degree, while he developed such vigor as he 
had not known for twenty years. 

He also lost twenty-six pounds, and an extremely 
pursy abdomen, without the slightest modification in his 
diet. Within six months this patient was restored from 
an apparently hopeless impotence to full functioning 
power. He has recently married a young woman of 33 
or 34 and will be the father of a child within a few 
months. 

Many of the women given ovarian and adrenal stimu¬ 
lation by radiendocrine therapy became years younger in 
appearance. Their mentrual functions, almost without 
exception, have markedly improved. Hemetin and hemo¬ 
globin ratio has increased. Neurotic and rheumatic 
symptoms cleared up. Metabolism and assimilation have 
been enhanced, and a general feeling of well-being re¬ 
stored. 

In fact my experience has been such as almost to 
warrant me in believing that, by scientific radiendocrino- 
logical treatment, the progress of senescence can be de¬ 
finitely retarded in practically every case in which actual 
structural degeneration has not yet developed and a new 
lease of relatively normal functioning power assured to 
many whose Sun of Life is slowly sinking into the purple 
shadows of the long night. 

Hundreds of persons suffering from ailments outlined 
here have been brought to normal health, and a life of 
happiness and usefulness, through this newer science. 
Within the compass of this little book these subjects have 
been treated with great brevity for practical purposes. 
However, if anyone has any special medical problem, he 
or she may feel perfectly free to call upon the American 
Institute of Radiendocrinology for advice, or they may 

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rely upon the cooperation of radiendocrine specialists 
with the local physician who recommends the radiendocri- 
nological treatment or practices Radiendocrinology. 


In cases of deferred adolescence, extending as it so 
frequently does into the years of maturity, I especially 
recommend radiendocrinology as the greatest of scientific 
achievements. 

But, for lowered vitality in early or advanced manhood 
or womanhood, for the creeping sense of old age, for im¬ 
potence or senescence, the forewarners of the Night 
of Life, there is nothing heretofore within the ken of man 
that even approaches the majestic grandeur of these great 
discoveries and accomplishments. 

HERMAN H. RUBIN, M. D. 


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